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Built-in functions, types, exceptions, and other objects.

Project description

Package to evaluate logical tag expressions by using a modified version of the Shunting Yard algorithm. This package is a Python port of cucumbers tag expression.

It’s also used by radish.

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Installing

$ pip install tag-expressions

Here is a tease

>>> from tagexpressions import parse
>>>
>>> expression = '( a and b ) or ( c and d )'
>>> compiled_expression = parse(expression)
>>> print(compiled_expression)
( ( a and b ) or ( c and d ) )
>>>
>>> data = ['a', 'b', 'c', 'd']
>>> assert compiled_expression.evaluate(data) == True
>>>
>>> data = ['a', 'c']
>>> assert compiled_expression.evaluate(data) == False
>>>
>>>
>>> expression = 'not a or b and not c or not d or e and f'
>>> compiled_expression = parse(expression)
>>> print(compiled_expression)
( ( ( not ( a ) or ( b and not ( c ) ) ) or not ( d ) ) or ( e and f ) )
>>>
>>> data = ['b', 'e', 'f']
>>> assert compiled_expression.evaluate(data) == True
>>>
>>> data = ['a', 'c', 'd']
>>> assert compiled_expression.evaluate(data) == False

Usage

Available operators

  • or - “or” conjunction of two given variables

  • and - “and” conjunction of two given variables

  • not - negation of a single variable

Every other token given in an infix is considered a variable.

Operator precedence

From high to low:

  • ()

  • or

  • and

  • not

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